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It has been shown that the molecules of sargassan and pelvecyan each contain a linear high-molecular-weight fragment consisting of residues of glucuronic acid and mannose alternating with one another.
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Institute of Biologically Active Substances, Far Eastern Scientific Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 393–396, July–August, 1971.
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Khomenko, V.A., Pavlenko, A.F., Solov'eva, T.F. et al. Polysaccharides of brown algae IV. Fragmentation of the molecules of sargassan and pelvecyan. Chem Nat Compd 7, 375–377 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00564716
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